SCRUM DAYS ARE DIFFERENT!

We learn at this conference ourselves. We want to make Software Development professional again. Lots of developers, experts and organisations gathered countless experience from their experiments (mistakes). They share it for you so don't to pay for this lessons yourself.

We inspect and adapt every edition of our conference to maximize your return of investment to join Scrum Days. This year we decided to prefer professional software delivery to coaching. Come, join us. See what is different about Scrum Days!

SEE HOW WE FIGURED IT OUT.

Ted-Format Talks

Only the best of the best can deliver inspiring talk in under 18 minutes. We set a high standard.

Workshops

Workshops deliver experience. Best way to deepen your understanding.

Invited Speakers

We invite people we know have something valuable to say.

Speaker's Pen

A space to talk to a speaker about their subject - we will round them up and make sure you can talk to them!

Creative Space

You can use every square centimeter of cozy space of hotel for getting the most value.

Open Space

We want to bring out what's best in our participants and get their knowledge and experience to shine!

Collaboration Catalyst

Friendly people and garden party after conference. Could you ask for more?

Job Corner

There will be a spot for posting a job offer or having a short interview

Limited edition

We will have no more than 300 participants, so that you will not drown in a sea of people

Creative Experience Corner

Visit us and put yourself into games and learning activities experience.

Ted-Format Talks

18 minutes is one of the hardest times to follow.

Only the best of the best can deliver inspiring talk in under 18 minutes. Only the best say yes to an invitation with an 18-minute limit. We set a high standard.

You are constantly entertained and education is condensed. We introduced 2 minute change-track breaks. We timebox radically, because we believe that consistency reduces complexity.

Workshops

Workshops deliver experience.

First day is knowledge and second day is experience.

Workshops are the best way to deepen your understanding. Some of them will be an extension of a talk, some will introduce new concepts.

They will all be 3 hours long to provide a lot of space for learning.

Invited Speakers

We invite people known to bring value.

Why don’t we open a Call For Papers? We want the best speakers that will not say that Refinement is optional or the Product Owner is a business analyst. We do Scrum. We want to perfect software delivery.

We make sure speakers understand Scrum, have proven experience. No bragging about things that never happened. Speakers with low ratings are not invited again.

The few that join us from external recommendation, are carefully reviewed by more than one expert of our program board.

Speaker's Pen

A space to talk to a speaker about their subject - we will round them up and make sure you can talk to them!

After each short block, there will be time and dedicated space to talk with every speaker that inspired or puzzled you.

Last years had proven that the interaction with speakers is useful for both parties. You can go deeper into the subject of their talk, ask them about their experiences or confront them with a different view. The floor is yours this time!

Creative Space

Lots of room for collaboration - you can use every square centimeter of cozy space of hotel for getting the most value!

It’s not just a slogan. This conference has the most room to collaborate out of any Scrum conferences in Europe. It’s both time and space.

First day will end with a masterfully initiated Open Space session, where you will be able to talk about any subject which is interesting to you.

This is a great moment to involve speakers. Open space room will be available at any time.

There will be games bringing people together and room to express your mind. Take ownership and bring out the most of self-organization!

Open Space

The floor is yours. We want to bring out what's best in our participants and get their knowledge and experience to shine!

Your subjects are not on the agenda? They are now! You drive the open space with your ideas.

Fear not – there will be facilitators introducing you to the concept and many experienced Open Spacers attend the conference!

Collaboration Catalyst

Friendly people and garden party after conference. Could you ask for more?

Evening party is there for a reason. The best part of each conference for many is coffee breaks.

At Scrum Days we learn experience and enjoy the full two days, including evening. Let’s loosen our professional outfit a bit and meet people.

There will be a variety of refreshments and snacks that will help to break the ice and start a meaningful conversation.

Job Corner

There will be a spot for posting a job offer or having a short interview.

We know that finding people who are experienced in Scrum isn’t easy. And there will be many of them attending Scrum Days.

You can find an employee right away. There will be a cozy corner, where you can talk to potential employees.

You can also ask one of the participants or speakers to help you assess their knowledge. Many will be happy to help!

Limited edition

We will have no more than 300 participants, so that you will not drown in a sea of people.

We limit the conference to 300 people. First - to give everyone access to speakers and other participants.

Also we want to create highest possible value - we concentrate on quality, not size.

Creative Experience Corner

Visit us and put yourself into games and learning activities experience.

During the Creative Experience Corner you will get knowledge and you will have an opportunity to apply in a simulated, safe and engaging enviroment.

And what is the best – you will have a lot of fun! What ist more we will give you a chance to set your creativity free by using Neuland visulaisation materials.

Which tracks can you choose?

PROCESSThe Scrum Mindset

The change in thinking, agility and treating people like people. 18-minute TED-style talks. Mixed basic and advanced subjects, so that everyone will find something interesting. Aimed at changing your thinking: The Agile Mindset, The Future of Scrum and why you don’t want to do Scrum.

PRODUCTThe Product Mindset

Product. Value. Market. 18-minute TED-style talks. Purely product and market sessions. Aimed at understanding what to focus on. How to say “No”, build trust and what actually is a User Story – the most abused tool in the Scrum universe.

EXPERIENCETouch And Try

Didn't have enough of keynotes? Would you like to dive deeper? This is the place. To experience what skills support Scrum and what our keynotes think when asked for a second thought.

ENTERPRISEWide perspective

Scrum is not separated from the organization. It's a symbiotic relationship. Successful co-operation between different departments is essential to succeed. Instead of fighting, let's work together. Current challenges require changes in all areas of the organization, like HR, sales, finance, etc. This is a track for people who think in broader terms.

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS AND OPEN SPACEDeep Dive

A set of useful tools for all the Scrum roles - story mapping, working with teams, shepherding organizations. 3-hour workshops will happen after lunch, so that you have power to dive deeper! Dives will feature: Team coaching, people contracts, PO game and many more.

EXECUTIVE TRACKHigh Level People, High Level Subjects

High level reality. Live cases presented by Executives themselves. Organizational culture, real transformations, real challenges and how to overcome them with 9000 people.

Our agenda is growing. Check out what we have prepared.

Day 1 - June, 5th

Process Track

Experience Track

Product Track

08:00 - 09:00

Registration, coffee, puzzle game

09:00 - 09:10

Introductions and conferenceinstruction manual

09:10 - 09:40

Keynote: #TrueScrumMaster.

Tobias Mayer

09:40 - 09:50

Speaker presentations

09:50 - 10:10

The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master.

Barry Overeem

Q&A

Tobias Mayer

Secrets of PO Success at a Tech Startup.

John Cieslik-Bridgen

10:10 - 10:30

From Management 1.0 to Management 3.0 – The Journey of a Medium Sized German Consulting Company.

Dominik Maximini

How to Split User Stories Without Losing Business Value.

Tomasz Stefko

10:30 - 10:50

Technical Excellence - a Sightless Part of Scrum.

Bartosz Janowski

The art of improving.

Izabela Goździeniak

To be a Product Manager, What Does that Mean?

Petr Havel

10:50 - 11:10

How to master Scrum Master skills.

Jacek Wieczorek

Live, Wine and Onion Soup.

Michał Fopp & Katarzyna Oruba

11:10 - 11:50

Coffee break

11:50 - 12:00

Speaker presentations

12:00 - 12:20

Scrum game development - is it a perfect fit?

Artur Staszczyk

Visualisations in Scrum.

Gabriela Borowczyk

Scrum Product Owner: How not to make it broken by design.

Krzysztof Niewiński

12:20 - 12:40

You’re the Scrum fan. Get your Boss convinced to Scrum for dummies.

Lucjan Giza & Stanisław Drosio

How to Quantify Product Owners' Workshop and Help Them Develop their Role and Skills.

Where Did My Money Go? A Different View on Revenue and Cost in Software Organizations.

Kate Terlecka

Scrum With No Limits - Teal Organisations.

Mateusz Gurgul

From Project to Product. Multidimensional Transformation in IT.

Jarosław Wójciński

11:10 - 11:40

Coffee & Cookies

11:40 - 11:50

Speaker presentations

Coffee & Cookies

11:50 - 12:10

Tall Ships Race – How to Tack in a Large Scale.

Piotr Gruszczyk

Agile In HR.

Joanna Duda

You’re the Boss. Don’t Lose Money on Scrum.

Stanisław Drosio, Lucjan Giza

12:10 - 12:30

Real-life Agility Metrics And Visualization.

Piotr Maksimczyk

Investing in Change Iteratively with Evidence-Based Change Framework.

Beata Nowacka

12:30 - 12:50

My Personal Agile Learning Curve.

Łukasz Stilger

Inspiring Co-creation. About SM/PO/HR Cooperation on People Processes.

Agata Landzwójczak

Five Requests to Executives in Agile Organizations.

Riina Hellstroem

12:50 - 13:00

Prizes, thank you and workshop introductions.

13:00 - 13:50

Lunch

Lunch

13:50 - 14:10

Speaker's pen

WORKSHOPS

EXECUTIVE WORKSHOP

14:10 - 17:10

#TrueScrumMaster

Tobias Mayer

Scrum Master - The Value and the Redundancy.

Gunther Verheyen

Introduction to Scrum.

Iza Woźniak

Scrum is Simple, But it's Hard – a Difficult Day of a Scrum Team.

Justyna Wykowska

Managing the Product Backlog Using User Story Mapping Technique.

Tomasz Piętka

The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master.

Barry Overeem

Agile contracting.

Łukasz Węgrzyn

Connected event - June, 7th

Full day workshop after conference with out Keynote Speaker Tobias Mayer - THE WHY OF SCRUM

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Connected event: Full day workshop with out Keynote Speaker Tobias Mayer

THE WHY OF SCRUM by Tobias Mayer

Date: 7 June, 2017 Venue: Sound Garden Warsaw

Participants of this event get 15% discount for Scrum Days 2017 conference,

One day workshop The Why of Scrum is an experience that looks beyond Scrum rules and process and into the heart of Scrum, drawing out its meaning and purpose and helping you understand its transformative power.

Meet our speakersWe make sure speakers understand Scrum, have proven experience. No bragging about things that never happened

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Gunther Verheyen

Independent Scrum Caretaker, a connector, writer, speaker

Tobias Mayer

Educator, Writer, Agile Citizen

Gunther Verheyen

Independent Scrum Caretaker, a connector, writer, speaker

Longtime Scrum practitioner (2003). After a career as a consultant, he started shepherding the Professional series of Scrum.org in 2013, while also leading its European operations. In 2016 Gunther decided to further his path as an independent Scrum caretaker.

Gunther ventured into IT and software development after graduating in 1992. His Agile journey started with eXtreme Programming and Scrum in 2003. Years of dedication followed, years of employing Scrum in diverse circumstances. As from 2010 Gunther became the inspiring force behind some large-scale enterprise transformations. In 2011 Gunther became a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org.

Gunther left consulting in 2013 to partner with Ken Schwaber, Scrum co-creator, at Scrum.org. He became the representative of Ken and Scrum.org in Europe, shepherded the ‘Professional Scrum’ series, and worked with Scrum.org’s global network of Professional Scrum Trainers. Gunther is co-creator to Agility Path and the Nexus framework for Scaled Professional Scrum.

Gunther left Scrum.org in 2016 to continue his journey of Scrum as an independent Scrum caretaker. Gunther aspires consolidating over a decade of experience, ideas, beliefs and observations of Scrum in re.vers.ify, a way for people re.imagine their Scrum to ultimately re.imagine their organisation.

In 2013 Gunther published the acclaimed book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide (a smart travel companion)”. Ken Schwaber recommends his book as ‘the best description of Scrum currently available’ and ‘an extraordinarily competent book’. In 2016 the Dutch translation of his book was published as “Scrum Wegwijzer (Een kompas voor de bewuste reiziger)”. A German translation as „Scrum Taschenbuch“ is planned for 2017.

When not travelling for Scrum and humanizing the workplace, Gunther lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium).

Tobias Mayer

Educator, Writer, Agile Citizen

Tobias was one of the first twenty CSTs in the world, training directly with Ken Schwaber in 2004. Tobias draws on twenty-five years experience in the fields of social service, group facilitation, organizational restructuring and individual counseling to inform his personal quest for engaged, purposeful citizenship.

In 2013 Tobias published his highly acclaimed book, The People's Scrum, and in the past few years has been invited to keynote and run workshops at a number of Agile conferences, including Agile NZ, AgileEE, Agile Spain, Ágiles Latin America, AgileWorld in Munich, DevExperience in Iași, Romania, and ITWorld in Minsk, Belarus.

Tobias believes in the purposeful integration of all aspects of our lives to create our personal dream. By sharing our dreams we build healthy community which will cultivate a new generation of leaders—women and men filled with compassion, releasing control, leading through trust.

AMONG THE SPEAKERS

Łukasz Banach

Product Lead, Codility

Łukasz Bielawa

Scrum Master, Motorola Solutions

Gabriela Borowczyk

Coach, Business Trainer, MarkaPRO

Carlo Bucciarelli

Agile Lead for Italy and Central Europe, Accenture

John Cieslik-Bridgen

VP of Culture, Estimote

Stanisław Drosio

Chief Scrum Master, BPSC

Joanna Duda

HR Specialist, Allegro

Michał Fopp

Product Owner of Marketing, Brass Willow

Lucjan Giza

Director R&D, BPSC

Izabela Goździeniak

Lean Agile Coach, Allegro

Piotr Gruszczyk

Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach, Motorola Solutions

Grzegorz Gubiński

Agile Coach, Sabre

Mateusz Gurgul

Agile Coach, Noordwind/ABB

Petr Havel

Product Manager, MSD

Riina Hellstroem

Co-founder, People Geeks

Bartosz Janowski

Leader of Agile, mBank

Dariusz Knopiński

Mobile Product Development Manager, Allegro

Michał Kopyt

Associate Director, EY

Tomisław Krężelewski

CTO, Azimo

Agata Landzwójczak

HR Business Partner, IT.integro

Piotr Maksimczyk

Multidextrous Methodologist, Visuella

Dominik Maximini

Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach, NovaTec

Krzysztof Niewiński

Agile Coach, ProCognita

Beata Nowacka

HR Manager, Oberthur Technologies Poland

Katarzyna Oruba

Product Owner, CHILID Hi-End Web Design

Barry Overeem

Scrum Master, Scrum.org

Tomasz Piętka

Business Analyst, Future Processing

Paweł Pustelnik

Head of Service Centre, ‎Future Processing

Bartosz Rożan

Agile Coach & Project Director, DeSmart Software House

Artur Staszczyk

VP of Engineering, GameDesire

Tomasz Stefko

Scrum Master, STX Next

Łukasz Stilger

Project Manager and Agile Facilitator, Capgemini

Łukasz Węgrzyn

Lawyer, Specialist in IT Law, Maruta Wachta

Jacek Wieczorek

Agile Coach, 202 Procent

Iza Woźniak

Scrum Master, Pearson IOKI

Jarosław Wójciński

Head of IT Development, Lux Med

Justyna Wykowska

Agile Coach, ‎ProCognita

Łukasz Banach

Product Lead, Codility

Certified Scrum Product Owner. 10+ years experience in IT industry. Working on project with 5M+ PLN budgets for the biggest IT companies in Poland (Wirtualna Polska, Grupa o2, Gemius, GoldenLine, Codility).Enthusiast of Agile approach in IT management. He loves „hack” implementation of new ideas rather than long planning. He is a huge fan of many abbreviations like MVP, KISS, UX, SEO used to growth any project.Pays much attention to details, testing and continuous improvement. He thinks that communication is one of the most important components of each successful team.The owner of 2 cats. Addicted to travelling, visited more than 30 countries.

Łukasz Bielawa

Scrum Master, Motorola Solutions

For the last 2 years Scrum Master in large IT projects developed with help of LeSS and SAFe frameworks. Agile (Scrum & Kanban) trainer. Co-organizer Agile Swarming – internal Motorola Solutions conference gathering Agile practitioners from major Motorola design centers as well as external experts.

Gabriela Borowczyk

Coach, Business Trainer, MarkaPRO

Business trainer and coach. Marketing consultant. The owner of MarkaPRO. Her key areas are personal branding, management and trainer skills dvelopment. She works with managers and trainers to support their professional competence growth. She also teaches at SET Academy. Visual Thinker. Sketchnoter.She holds MA university degrees in German language and marketing. She has also graduated from SET Academy for business trainers and coaches. For many years she used to work as a marketing director for international corporations.

Carlo Bucciarelli

Agile Lead for Italy and Central Europe, Accenture

Working in Information Technology for 19 years, he has been involved in various initiatives adopting Scrum, for large Clients in Italy and Central Europe.

He started working in 2008 as a Scrum Master on a Large Utilities Client, then became an Agile Coach, appointed as Agile Lead by his organization for his region. He had been working in the set-up of several Agile implementations, introducing Scrum in various Clients including Utilities in Italy, a European Banking organization, a Telecommunication operator in Poland, and other major organizations in various industries.

John Cieslik-Bridgen

VP of Culture, Estimote

John has more than 16 years experience as a developer, Scrum Master and Coach in the UK, Sweden and Poland, including time at Lunar Logic, Spotify and Untitled Kingdom. He's also been a police officer in the UK and an unsuccessful handbag salesperson. He is currently VP of Culture at Estimote, a Y Combinator backed startup based in NY and Krakow building an operating system for the physical world.

Stanisław Drosio

Chief Scrum Master, BPSC

Certified Scrum Master & Project Manager. Still trying to look for new management and organization patterns to execute well, both in a world of business and science. Specialist in “red” projects crisis management. Nowadays involved on full – time in agile transition of BPSC – polish ERP software house. Sharing his agile knowledge all over the organization, but also with university students doing his Ph.D. Scrum Master with kalasznikow, privately – sport shooting and parachuting fan.

Joanna Duda

HR Specialist, Allegro

HR specialist evolving best practices in providing guidance to employees and organizations. During my career path, I have managed HR responsibilities including process improvements, employee development and change management. At my current position I am responsible for leading the benefits programme and providing operational advice for employees. My priority at work is to help creating a friendly and inviting environment, building trust and openness. I’m especially interested in motivation, engagement and agile attitude, devoting to these subjects posts on agileinhr.blogspot.com.

Michał Fopp

Product Owner of Marketing, Brass Willow

Lucjan Giza

Director R&D, BPSC

Grown-up (18+ years of experience) programmer and software architect. Still likes to be impressed by new patterns, languages and work methods. Creator of dozens of systems, used by hundreds of companies and institutions. Currently fully involved in agile transition of ERP company - BPSC. Sharing his passion and skills with co-workers, but also with primary school kids. Privately – mountain wanderer, go-kart enthusiast and classical music fan.

Izabela Goździeniak

Lean Agile Coach, Allegro

She helps a group of people became a real team and cooperate effectively using Scrum or Kanban and the best lean and agile practices. For over 8 years she has been engaged in E-commerce. She used to be a Scrum Master and a coach and a mentor for new Scrum Masters. She is experienced in working with product, operations and infrastructure teams. She also keeps a Product Owner perspective as she used to be one in a start-up in Allegro Group. Iza is a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner. She shares her experience on agile247.pl website.

Piotr Gruszczyk

Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach, Motorola Solutions

An Agile enthusiast who strongly believes in the team's inner ability to change, self-development and self-organization which in turn lead to outstanding results. Over 9 years of professional experience as a Software Developer, Project Lead and Scrum Master in Motorola Solutions Inc.Currently an active Agile trainer, transformation practitioner and coach, but first and foremost a Scrum Master.

Grzegorz Gubiński

Agile Coach, Sabre

Grzegorz is Agile & Lean trainer, coach and consultant with over 18 years of experience in software industry. He’s interested in every area of software development including engineering practices, agile and lean project management, team building process and system thinking.His personal goal is to help others to find their own way to become proud of what they are delivering and how they are doing so. Fascinated by cultures of human groups and its development he wants to introduce models, tools, techniques from other disciplines to Agile world.

Mateusz Gurgul

Agile Coach, Noordwind/ABB

Mateusz has more than 10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Project Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach in Poland and in the UK. Co-founder of Noordwind, a self-managing organisation. Currently running an enterprise Agile transformation at ABB.

He's on a life mission to make people's work enjoyable, more natural and down to earth, yet still highly productive. Running is his thing. The faster and longer, the better.

Petr Havel

Product Manager, MSD

What I really love about being a PO is that I constantly have something new to develop, create or learn even after being more than 8 years in the role. In the role I have had the privilege to lead teams in creating products that range from database solutions (Logica CMG/Acision), iPTV platforms (nangu.TV) to services aimed at the sales force and patients (MSD). These solutions are used worldwide by companies like AT&T, T-Mobile, O2 or by the sales for of MSD (one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world). Currently I am leading a structured experiments team inside of MSD, that does rapid experimentation on new business concepts that involve cutting edge technology.

Riina Hellstroem

Co-founder, People Geeks

Riina is recommended internationally by peers and strangers as a brilliant agile & people professional. She is a misfit of "old-school" organizations' HR, where she worked for 10 years, until she founded her own consultancy to drive the Agile HR scene forward. She holds a M. Sc. Tech, a few agile certificates and a degree in applied neuroscience to support her work with theoretical background and hard science. Her recently co-founded, boutique people & business consultancy, People Geeks (www.peoplegeeks.net), is helping clients with any needs concerning succeeding in business by HR, people analytics, agile change and leadership. Riina helps you redesign your organisation structures, management- and people practices to fit digital, service design, self-directive and agile. In private she considers herself being a surfer. Which is not working out so well living in Finland.

Dariusz Knopiński

Mobile Product Development Manager, Allegro

He worked as an SAP consultant (controlling modules), as an analyst of technical and business solutions for banking in Accenture's Warsaw office. Thereafter he joined Allegro Group to Marketplace business unit running Allegro Trading Platform in Central and Eastern Europe. He started as a Product Manager, where he ideated and later lead to release first fully electronic installment product and was Allegro Platform's first Scrum Product Owner. Next he managed whole Product Managers team developing Allegro Platform's functionalities, then Product Owners team taking part in one of the largest operation of scrum implementation in Poland and CEE. Currently he leads mobile department, with engineers, UX researchers, designers and Product Managers is responsible for delivering the best mobile experience of Allegro. He specializes in business and functional development of high-scale products and transactional platforms developed in agile environments (Kanban, Scrum) and is devoted to Metrics Driven Design and conversion funnels. He is Blackblot Certified Product Manager and Professional Scrum Product Owner (scrum.org).He holds an Executive MBA diploma from Aalto University.He has graduated from Poznań University of Economics. He earned the title of Master of Arts in Computer Science and Econometrics on Economics Department.

Michał Kopyt

Associate Director, EY

Team builder and an experienced IT Manager, always looking for interesting challenges and new ways to make any team he leads better, happier and more efficient. Actively involved in spreading Agile practices in Poland, lucky enough to lead the largest Agile projects in the country (~500 FTE), with great team and plenty of fun in environment which by default is considered dull and uninteresting - insurance industry carriers. What he loves is the possibility to build great teams by enabling people to develop their natural talents and exploit their will to succeed and be appreciated.

Tomisław Krężelewski

CTO, Azimo

Tomisław is a IT manager with heart broken by Agile. He used to work as Technology Director at Allegro, where he was able to co-create large scale e-commerce products and help build many extraordinary teams. Currently, as happy and busy CTO at Azimo, he tries to change the world of global money transfers.

Agata Landzwójczak

HR Business Partner, IT.integro

HR practitioner whose 10-year experience embraces a whole range of human processes coresponding with a complete life cycle of an employee in an organization: starting with employee & employer branding, talent attracting and acqusition, through recruitment projects, to retaining, motivating and offboarding. Her true passion is co-creating a company culture based on transparency, respect, diversity and trust. Currently a happy and proud HR Business Partner in IT.integro.

Piotr Maksimczyk

Multidextrous Methodologist, Visuella

We are born as human beings. Next we become insane specialists. Then it takes the rest of our life to become sane humans again. We become Multidextrous Methodologists. I am a legitimate adult in E-commerce industry and becoming Multidextrous Methodologist. 18 years of experience at various positions from CEO of a startup, through various IT/BIZ positions like (Web)Developer, DevOps, Architect, to leader positions like Product Owner or Scrum Master, and finally Agility Coach shaped who I am as a professionalist and human being.

Dominik Maximini

Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach, NovaTec

He is an experienced Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach at NovaTec Consulting GmbH, where he helps teams to live up to the values of Scrum. His vision is to carry the fundamental values of Scrum – like openness and honesty – into various company environments.His specific strengths are economical thinking and efficiency paired with excellent analytical skills and organizational change methods. He applies this knowledge to introduce Agile practices into enterprises of varying size and industry focus.If you would like the opportunity to meet Dominik outside of a specific consulting engagement, he is available as conference speaker as well as being the author of several books and articles in the Scrum domain.

Krzysztof Niewiński

Agile Coach, ProCognita

My real passion is guiding people through the journey of Agile adoption that results in a transformation of the ways the IT organization and the business work. This concerns changes in many areas like organization’s structure, people’s behavior, team dynamics, tools, processes, stakeholder interactions, and organizational culture.I work hard to help people develop their own potential, facilitate the adoption of the Agile / Lean culture and practices, and ultimately to help them obtain high competitiveness, strong market position, as well as a great working environment.My area of interest is mainly focused around maximizing the value of products and its rapid delivery to users.On a daily basis I deal with creating highly-productive product teams, conducting trainings and workshops, facilitating meetings, removing impediments of organizational disadvantages, eliminating wastes, as well as to building a conducive working environment which is the foundation of the high commitment and responsibility of employees.

Beata Nowacka

HR Manager, Oberthur Technologies Poland

HR Manager with over 10 years of experience within IT sector.Challenged to help building new software R&D company from scratch. Dreaming about agile and happy organization and trying hard to make it real. Inspired by Scrum, Agility Path, Management 3.0 and Teal organizations. Hardly trying not to be radical, but she’s mostly questioning traditional HR approach.

Katarzyna Oruba

Product Owner, CHILID Hi-End Web Design

She is a key person in a process management in, so called, agile methodology, where she is responsible for the active cooperation with the client on the level of his business goals and requirements prioritization. A passionate of topics associated with User Experience Design. She strongly believes that the users are the indicators of the real business value of every project.

Barry Overeem

Scrum Master, Scrum.org

Barry is a freelance Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. He’s an active member of the Scrum community and shares his insights and knowledge by speaking at conferences, facilitating workshops and writings blog posts. As a Scrum Master, Barry has a focus on creating successful teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality and a drive for continuous improvement. Barry supports Product Owners in visualising progress, creating a transparent Product Backlog and maximizing the value of the product. He helps organisations in making Scrum successful by supporting management in changing processes, procedures, culture and behaviour. Due his strong focus on the principles of Agile and the values of Scrum, Barry ensures the spirit of Scrum is truly understood.

Tomasz Piętka

Business Analyst, Future Processing

Working in the IT industry since 2007. Tomasz graduated from the Cracow University of Economics and the AGH University of Science and Technology. In his professional career, he is using agile methodologies and is involved in many development projects from business analysis perspective. Currently employed at Future Processing, also develops his own initiative - Expertiv (www.expertiv.com.pl).

Paweł Pustelnik

Head of Service Centre, ‎Future Processing

Currently responsible for software delivery department which delivers software services to our clients. Also internal trainer, speak on conferences from time to time and run my own blog (www.okiemlidera.pl) promoting leadership and organizational improvement.In terms of leadership and management he tries to keep wide perspective and avoid quick solution trap – thus in his opinion there are no best practices or tools which can work everywhere. He rather believes in common sense and deep understanding of the problem in the first place.He is always happy to contact with other leaders, managers or people running their own business, who care about their own self-improvement, as well as their team, department or the whole organization.

Bartosz Rożan

Agile Coach & Project Director, DeSmart Software House

Bartosz Rożan is an Agile Coach with 11 years experience in project management. Everyday he receives about 2 projects briefs on his desk, containing words such as “Agile” and “Scrum". As a Scrum Master and also a Manager who operates as a Contractor, his challenge is to ensure that an agile, empirical environment is properly understood and used in order to create products that users need. He has received so many MVP distinctions from startup leaders that he is really starting to think that “Most Relevant" is a basketball abbreviation. Bartosz shares his gained practical knowledge and experience working as a Trainer and Consultant of Agile methodologies, and considers it a pleasure to take part in the transformation of organizations as well as the people in them.

Artur Staszczyk

VP of Engineering, GameDesire

In the game development industry since 2007. Artur supervises software development processes and tools needed to achieve company business goals. He is responsible for the recruitment process as well as planning and implementing educational initiatives for current and potential employees. He trains Scrum Masters, looks after development teams working with Scrum framework and serves as a mentor for young developers. Artur is a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Jagiellonian University. He gained his experience working in companies like CD Projekt RED and Reality Pump helping to create titles like “Two Worlds 2” and “The Witcher 3”.

Tomasz Stefko

Scrum Master, STX Next

Real Scrum enthusiast. During last 6 years he gained knowledge beeing .Net developer, Scrum Master and Product Owner - but of course not at the same time. His experience is based on hotel, telecommunication and banking industry projects in waterfall and Agile environment. He accepted his first challenge as Scrum Master over 3 years ago at Ericpol/Ericsson and started coaching and supporting develomepnt teams and Product Owners. During this time he had short breake and changed his role to Prdacto Owner - to gain practical knowledge about this role and improve his skills about supportingProduct Owners as a Scrum Master. Now he is continuing his mission at STX Next as a Scrum Master.After hours he is active member of Zwinna Łódź and total "petrolhead" - loving classic cars.

Łukasz Stilger

Project Manager and Agile Facilitator, Capgemini

Previously for more than 10 years Lukasz worked as a developer, usually around .NET ecosystem and Scrum projects. He learned software engineering as a member of big projects (more than 50 people) but also in small startups - from the very first line of code. This kind of experiences gave him the ability to good start his journey as a manager.Between 2007 and 2013 he organized many commercial agile events in Wroclaw. Since 2011, he is an agile manager in Capgemini and successfully introduced agile philosophy in the Organisation. First, he was as a local community leader, then a regionally qualified facilitator and global contributor. In 2014 and 2015, he was a co-author of distinguished publications about distributed agile delivery and using kanban in software automotive projects.Lukasz is a Project Manager for the automotive customers. Since 2014, he also carrying direct of people development and department growth.

Łukasz Węgrzyn

Lawyer, Specialist in IT Law, Maruta Wachta

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I). Author of legal contract models for Polish and international companies, enabling them to perform an agile scale enterprise transformation, especially in regards of vendor management (vendor partnership). Co-author and leader of a project commissioned by the State Treasury, consisting in preparing"Legal opinion on the possibility and use of Agile methodology in IT projects implemented under the Public Procurement Law Act". Lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematic- SD s, Computer Science and Mechanics, Warsaw University.

Jacek Wieczorek

Agile Coach, 202 Procent

Author of the book "Labirynty Scruma”. During his carreer he gained hands-on experience in many roles (developer, project manager, scrum master, agile coach, C-level executive), in various companies (start-ups, middle size companies, big corporations), in diverse business models (product and service oriented, internal and external clients), with customers from different countries (Poland, UK and USA). He was supporting two big Scrum transitions (Allegro and PayU) and led an agile transition in a software house (STX Next). Currently he helps organizations turn into places where valuable products are efficiently created. Co-founder of agile247.pl and author on agilecoaching.pl.

Iza Woźniak

Scrum Master, Pearson IOKI

Currently Scrum Master in Pearson, publishing and education company. Before starting the adventure in IT Iza has held various positions in one of the biggest FMCG companies. She was a specialist, took part in international projects, finally led her own team. A big fan of the process approach. She is no stranger to the backwoods of agile - Lean and Kaizen. For several years she focused on various methodologies of leading projects / processes and most of all - working with people. She professes the view that personal development combined with teamwork is the lever of business development. There is always a human in a heart of any process.

Jarosław Wójciński

Head of IT Development, Lux Med

With LUX MED Group related since 2013, first as main architect and soon Head of Strategy and Architecture Department. At the end of 2015 appointed as a Head of IT Development Department. Responsible for development of business services and IT systems accross whole Group. Co-author last Agile transformation in LUX MED.

Previously associatied with PZU where he was responsible for IT architectural solutions and governance. He has built his background skills of systems' development and design in FirstData and Ministry of Defense.Experienced leader and technical contractor of many successful projects. Coach, lecturer on a few Warsaw universities. Graduated from the Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology (WAT) and several postgraduate studies including at WAT, University of Warsaw, and DRMI NPS Monterey.

Justyna Wykowska

Agile Coach, ‎ProCognita

By combining a technical degree with soft skills education and real life experience, Justyna emphasizes the collaboration and communication factors in organizations and teams' dynamics.For almost a decade Justyna have led diverse multinational and distributed teams involved in huge projects, and since 2014 she is working with ProCognita as an Agile Coach and Trainer.Using a broad knowledge of lean and classic project management, Justyna is supporting groups on their way towards self-organizing robust teams, strong understanding of Agile principles, and adoption of Agile engineering practices, with the goal of maximizing gains and be ready for scaling.

When working with people and organisations, I continually revert to the simplest and most core basics of Scrum, regardless how Scrum has, or has not, been adopted, or the scale of operations. I highlight their purpose and how they serve business agility. I find that it draws on people’s imagination immensely but it also excites people greatly. Over and over I observe how imagination can set an organisation apart. Imagination often distinguishes innovative from lagging organisations. I believe that any organisation can be re.imagined, re.vers.ified, to exploit its intrinsic potential to innovate. Scrum, with is many adaptations possible, provides a safety net. Scrum creates room for action and discovery. I help organisations re.imagine their Scrum to converge their product delivery into a Scrum Studio. Over time divisions dissipate into a structure of product hubs interconnected through purpose and distributed leadership. Creativity and innovation emerge. People, teams and the organisation prosper. I consolidated over a decade of experience, ideas, beliefs and observations of Scrum in re.vers.ify. Re.vers.ify is an act of simplicity, rhythm and focus. I introduce how the deliberate emergence of a Scrum Studio is the current way forward to re.vers.ify.

KEYNOTE: #TrueScrumMaster

Tobias Mayer, Educator, Writer, Agile Citizen

The ScrumMaster role was created to confront traditional management structures and processes. Described as a servant leader, the ScrumMaster was to socialise the framework of Scrum, inspire collaboration, creativity and engagement, and infuse the organisation with the values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness.

Such a role, so different to any traditional management role was a challenge—to the individual, certainly, but more so to the organisation itself. Over time, traditional corporate culture has undermined, crippled and even enslaved the role of ScrumMaster, force fitting it into the old management paradigm. ScrumMasters are now thought of as junior project managers, delivery managers, or even just process taskmasters, responsible for little more than setting up meetings, collecting meaningless metrics and filing status reports.

This talk offers a way out of the corporate quagmire for those who genuinely care about transforming the workplace. Directing the focus back on the spirit of Scrum, and the essence of the role itself, attendees will learn what is needed to rescue Scrum from its enterprise captors, and restore it to its place as an anarchic, free-thinking, confrontational approach to work. At first a lament, but then a song of hope #TrueScrumMaster will remind us all of what really matters.

TALK: Scrum Product Owner: How Not to Make it Broken by Design.

Krzysztof Niewiński, Agile Coach, ProCognita

The name of the "Product Owner" role in Scrum is clear, relevant, and shows the essence of this role. The paradox I see (not only in large organizations) is that Product Owners either do not make a "product" (no direct end users), or do not feel like "the owners" (they can’t decide) or both. However, fun begins with a large scale: problems of decision-making, power, multitude of products and markets, many end users, teams, stakeholders, managers. The situation is getting even more complicated by the cacophony of subsequent PO names such as Proxy PO, Shadow PO, Area PO, System PO, Team PO, Team Owner, Process Owner, Tactical Owner, PM / PO, Business PO, IT PO etc.

In my presentation I will present typical pitfalls I've seen so far in defining the Product Owner role and I will give you some tips on how to avoid them - especially when you scale.

TALK: True Story: Corporate Adventures with Estimates and Scrum.

Łukasz Bielawa, Scrum Master, Motorola Solutions

How many times have you been asked for estimates, no matter if you are a Developer, a Scrum Master or a Product Owner? Estimation is a vital part of our work! However, have you ever wondered how much can we trust our estimates? Have you ever wondered when can we honestly say that a Sprint is successful?

In my talk I will present real-life examples. Based on data gathered from Scrum Teams, working in different domains, technologies and having different habits, I will show patterns that surprised me. See where you shall look to check if your Scrum Teams follow the same surprising patterns.

TALK: Real-life Agility Metrics And Visualization.

Piotr Maksimczyk, Multidextrous Methodologist, Visuella

Some Agility Coach called me and asked: “Hey PiMa! I started working in a new company. Could you please send me some “cheap” metrics so I can start assessing the agility level of teams I will be working for?” I responded “why not” and decided to share real-life agility metric and visualization examples I’ve been trying for years to support making wiser and more conscious decisions about improvements. David J. Anderson once said that FAIL should be treated as “First Attempt In Learning”. I totally agree with this statement. In my opinion, while creating a metric, you need to experiment as much as you can. Try to invent new metrics. Try to create a plenty of them. Most of them will most probably be useless. Finding such that can provoke you, your team or top-level management to make a beneficial decision is hard. I will share a lot of real-life success and fail stories.

TALK: Secrets of PO Success at a Tech Startup.

John Cieslik-Bridgen, VP of Culture, Estimote

Estimote has a bold mission to build an operating system for the physical world. No one’s done that before, and our Product Owners have a tough job working with demanding, uncompromising Founders with a laser-focused vision, plus a developer community you can’t bullshit. How to succeed as a PO in this environment? Based on many hours coaching our PO team in one-on-ones, many hours with the CEO and CTO understanding their expectations, plus reflection on times we have failed, this talk will provide unprecedented insight and transparency as to what it takes to succeed in such an environment.

Starting with the basics – essential, non-negotiable ingredients of success

The secret sauce – what do our most successful POs have in common.

TALK: My Personal Agile Learning Curve.

Łukasz Stilger, Project Manager and Agile Facilitator, Capgemini

An agile approach can be misinterpreted in many different ways, unfortunately. Most of the visible agile misunderstandings, that I observe, come from using Scrum. The framework is already known but what about using it? In my opinion, it is developing more like organic way - by the People. While this speech I will show my personal learning curve, based on almost 10 years agile journey. I will touch specific areas like process model itself, experiencing difficulties, a meaning of team, facilitating customer, defining a product, experiencing the size of an organisation, looking for humanity and finally covering business expectations. Have I always used agile principles properly? Of course not! Do I fail? Yes, of course! Do I learn still? I hope so :-)

TALK: Coaching Product Owner on being a Great Product Owner.

Bartosz Rożan, Agile Coach & Project Director, DeSmart Software House

Relations between the Scrum Master and the Product Owner are complicated. They are focused on other parts of the project/product and often have a very different background and leadership approach. It is even more complicated if these people are in Ordering Party - Contractor relationship and it happens in most Software Houses. You will find similar case if they are on different levels in an organizational structure. Moreover they come from different countries and meet mostly using tools like Skype. Two of Scrum Team members are Product Owner and a Scrum Master.

During my presentation I would like to focus on answering below questions:

Are they really a team? Do they have common goal?

How Scrum Master should construct feedback to Product Owner?

How can he help PO to focus on business value without doing a job for him?

Maybe it is a common institutional reason that hold people back from excellence?

Have we just identified a serious swept under the rug impediment?

How they can become allies in the cause of helping the team create great products?

I would like to share the experience from the perspective of the Scrum Masters who is pleased to collaborate with Product Owners. The presentation will contain basic mistakes made by Scrum Masters and Product Owners with the consequences of these errors for team’s performance, project stability or communication. During my lecture I would like to elaborate tools or techniques that clever Agile Coach can use to facilitate relationships with PO.

TALK: From Management 1.0 to Management 3.0 – The Journey of a Medium Sized German Consulting Company.

Dominik Maximini, Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach, NovaTec

Did you ever ask yourself what happens to management when you transition your organization to Agile? We did not - we just started. The challenge of transforming a traditional organization towards Scrum does not stop at the team border. It also requires a replacement of the old leadership mindset and corresponding practices with a set of agile ones. Some of these are provided by Management 3.0. Today, five years into the journey, we want to share what helped us to succeed, and which of our ideas failed. This talk will briefly outline the difference between Management 1.0 and Management 3.0, and then take a deep dive into the specifics of our change. Come and join us to hear more about our travels!

TALK: Developing Right Team’s Habits.

Grzegorz Gubiński, Agile Coach, Sabre

Hard time to stick with decisions made on Retrospective? Not sure if your dedication to team’s working agreements is bringing fruits you expected? Suspect that your team is barking up the wrong tree? A life of an agile software development team in not easy. Regardless of method of choice a team needs to fulfill many often contradicting needs still retaining place for self-improvement.

The Talk describes an experiment of combining elements of Evidence Based Management with Four Disciplines of Execution as a way for a development team to track and improve their own habits. It’s meant to address two common issues that hinder team’s self-improvement: lack of consistency and inability to see long term payoffs of current action

TALK: The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master.

Barry Overeem, Scrum Master, Scrum.org

The personal mission of Barry is creating a better understanding of the Scrum Master role. This is a role of many stances and diversity. A great Scrum Master is aware of them and knows when and how to apply them, depending on situation and context. Everything with the purpose of helping people understand the spirit of Scrum. During the TED talk Barry will share his view on the Scrum Master role and discuss the preferred stances but also the most common misunderstandings.

TALK: True Lean in Start-up.

Łukasz Banach, Product Lead, Codility

Letʼs imagine how often you use “Lean” or “Scrum” terminology. Probably almost every day in your office? You have projects, teams, deadlines, sometimes even resources to start working on. But….is it possible to start new non-softwarre startup completely from scratch in Agile and Lean way? No way? Iʼll try to show you thatʼs possible! Based on my experience with JedenSlad, Iʼll try to share my thoughts how to check if there is any market for your idea and how to realise that it is executable. Curious? Come to my presentation!

TALK: How to Master Scrum Master Skills.

Jacek Wieczorek, Agile Coach, 202 Procent

Everyday I hear Scrum Masters asking what they can do to improve their skills. Despite there is a lot of knowledge available today, they are struggling with getting valuable hints. Since I started my Scrum Master journey years ago I’ve tried plenty of approaches to speed up my growth — with various results. Some things didn’t worked at all, some were just fine, but some exceeded my expectations a lot and accelerated my growth as a Scrum Master exponentially. Many of my decisions put me out of my comfort zone, but from today’s perspective it was definitely worth it. During my talk I will share top things that worked for me and also for Scrum Masters which I support on daily basis as an Agile Coach.

TALK: Scrum Game Development - Is It a Perfect Fit?

Artur Staszczyk, VP of Engineering, GameDesire

Agile is just a set of rules. Scrum - a minimal framework for creating software. Game development is a growing part of the software development market. Why wouldn’t it be a perfect fit? We know scrum is not a silver bullet. So, are there areas of game development that make scrum rules hard to follow? If so, which ones and why? Or maybe it's just an excuse? Maybe we create the illusion of complexity and chaos around gamedev to make life easier for us? The goal of this talk is to present the challenges and processes of game development companies, share experience on how to implement scrum in gamedev companies and to show common impediments along the way. I think it's important to know about the state of game development business, as more and more companies try agile solutions in their struggles to win players’ hearts.

TALK: Technical Excellence - a Sightless Part of Scrum.

Bartosz Janowski, Agie Coach, mBank

Let's have a look at agendas of Agile/Scrum conferences. What's on the top? A product, soft skills, teams, coaching, scaling? All of them are vital. It could be confirmed by any experienced Agilist. What's missing?In the Agile world, the ugly duckling is a software craftsmanship. In the Scrum Guide, the Agile Manifesto, it's barely mentioned. But this is a crucial ingredient to get an increment every Sprint. On the other hand, I use to hear requests for another sophisticated retrospective technique from a legion of Scrum Masters. However many developers complain that before the Scrum era, a testing phase was well-prepared (if finally executed ;-)).In my talk, I would like to dig into the issue, why it's happeing, revise priorities, highlight why QA is essential and how we all can deal with it.

TALK: Own Your Leadership.

Paweł Pustelnik, Head of Service Centre, Future Processing

Novice Scrum Masters are usually strongly focused on scrum practices in the first place. They observe how Scrum works, search for experiences and knowledge shared by others. This is a good first step…to become a leader in the future. Being Scrum Master is only the first step on the path where the main destination is becoming effective leader.Leadership is about influencing and every Scrum Master might be a leader who can influence other people and inspire positive changes around us. I would like to explain what it means to be a leader, how to become a better leader and how to effectively share agile values and change the world around us. I will show how leadership should work, why it is different from management and what responsibility means.

EXPERIENCE: Data Visual Thinking – Visualisation in Scrum.

Gabriela Borowczyk, Coach, Business Trainer MARKAPRO

Did you know that our brain sees words as images? No matter how surprising it may seem, it is true. We think through a single or a series of pictures. Just imagine how compelling and effective you would be if you could communicate with others using images. If you feel intrigued but are thinking you may not be up to it, this workshop is for you. Gabriela’s mission is to make people aware of the importance of visualisation of ideas and goals. Their power and impact, if turned into images. When people see concepts in the form of a picture, they understand and connect to them instantly. That is the secret behind Visual Thinking and Visual Facilitation.

Gabriela’s goal is to make turning ideas into images as easy as pie. That is why during the workshop you will learn the basics of Visual Facilitation. You will have the opportunity to learn a few essential technics and tricks, as well as get acquainted with some ready-to-use examples.

The newly learnt skills will enable you to put the most important things within scrum into visuals. You will energise and motivate your team. You will get the most out of your input. The process itself will feel natural.

WORKSHOP: Scrum is Simple, But it's Hard – a Difficult Day of a Scrum Team.

Justyna Wykowska, Agile Coach, ‎ProCognita

Let's have a close look into the tough situations that are faced by many teams. During the workshop, we will role play several scenarios based on common problems encountered by Scrum Teams. We will deal with fear of change and loosing control at organization level, problems with defining and delivering product value and reluctance for improvement. Together, we will tap to collective intelligence to find potential solutions for situation in which Scrum rules and principles are being broken.

The workshop will be conducted in English. The number of participants is limited to 20 – first come first served rule applies.

WORKSHOP: The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master.

Barry Overeem, Scrum Master, Scrum.org

During the workshop “The 8 Stances of a Scrum Master” every participant will experience the potential of the Scrum Master role in a unique way. It’s my personal mission to create a better understanding of the Scrum Master role. Truly practicing with the 8 different stances increases the chance of successful Scrum Mastery. The workshop will be fun, interactive and engaging. You don’t want to miss it!

The workshop will be conducted in English. The number of participants is limited to 25 – first come first served rule applies.

WORKSHOP: Managing the Product Backlog Using User Story Mapping Technique.

Tomasz Piętka, Business Analyst, Future Processing

Workshop Objective: The objective of the workshop is to present the User Story Mapping as a complex tool for building Product Backlog but also defining of how the application works, determining the external and internal dependencies and requirements decomposition. The participants are going to learn how to define priorities, versions (MVP) on the map.

Results: The workshop participants will define the concept of a specific product targeted to the appropriate user group and addressing the needs of that group. They will then build a specific user activity map and tasks that will later translate into Product Backlog. The map can later serve as a means to communicate the Scrum team with the client, as well as to manage requirement changing process and priorities shifting.

The workshop will be conducted in English. The number of participants is limited to 30 – first come first served rule applies.

During the workshop, we will focus on practical tips & tricks related to contracting agile IT projects. We will discuss contractual clauses that help you to boost cost/time to market of your products as well as optimize a quality of deliverables. We will learn how to avoid negotiation's show stoppers and build a vendor- client partnership by using a fair contract mechanisms. We will also learn on how to implement Scrum framework into the contract including payments model compatible with iterations based models. The workshop is based on practical experiences from the Polish ICT market.

EXPERIENCE: The Art of Improving.

Izabela Goździeniak, Lean Agile Coach, Allegro

Inspect and adapt are the core pillars of Scrum. It’s easy to say, but more difficult to implement. Many Scrum teams have regular sprint retrospectives, yet they don’t improve or improve very slowly. They establish new actions during each retro, but don’t change their behavior during sprint. Maybe it’s time to change attitude and use different tools to make good things happen. During workshops you will discover what supports change and improvement and why it’s not so easy to change.

TALK: You’re the Scrum Fan. Get your Boss Convinced to Scrum for Dummies.

Any system change or improvement project that requires an investment of capital, time or other resources must be accepted by senior management before launching. Getting the final approval can sometimes be a serious challenge. Moreover – their real acceptance and commitment are the key factors of Scrum’s success. Scrum ideas (no matter how true and sexy they are) always have to fight against all the “I’m not convinced”, “Maybe you’d only try it in a small team?”, “What the heck is the Scrum?” and other stalling for time excuses. But you have to go through them bravely, if you think Scrum is seriously for you. We will try to give you some ideas about what should you start with and how to cope with inevitable obstacles during this battle.

Where is money in Scrum? Why Developers get excited about it? How new approach can change image of your business outside the company? When a “green light” to an Agile/Scrum personnel ideas shouldn’t be given? What are the main threats of Scrum/Agile transition process? If you are looking for answers and any other scrum – tricky questions, you should join our presentation. Remember, Scrum is simple in theory but hard to implement in practice. If you meet a group of people that think Scrum is easy, then you can be sure that they don’t understand it. We will guide you through the pros and cons of this decision.

TALK: How to Split User Stories Without Losing Business Value.

Tomasz Stefko, Scrum Master, STX NEXT

Not experienced Scrum teams very often face problem with splitting large User Stories into smaller ones. They want to have smaller User Stories to improve flow in the Sprint, get smoother Burndown chart and decrease possibility of failing the Sprint. Usually first idea is to split them "horizontaly" - by type of work that has to be done. Such mindset causing huge risk of losing business value and creating waterfall way of working. Is there any option to prevent this situation? During short presentation I will show few strategies how to split large User stories into smaller ones with keeping it's business value.

TALK: How to Quantify Product Owners' Workshop and Help Them Develop their Role and Skills.

Dariusz Knopiński, Mobile Product Development Manager, Allegro

Product Owner's role in scrum seems easy and attractive. A lot of power and responsibility, making decisions and shaping the future, once a sprint writing few user stories and prioritising them. Sounds obvious and very attractive. But when the real work starts, for people in Product Owner’s roles it turns out that's not that piece of cake, it's not a few stories a week and team is also not that cooperative. POs leaders (because eventually, almost everyone has it's own boss, right? ;) start to see or feel the difference in performance among Product Owners, but do not know how to name what is being done right and what needs to be done better, and even more - how to quantify that skills to help Product Owners improve.

In this talk I would like to show you how did I manage to quantify Product Owners workshop, visualize them their strong and weak skills and help them improve their skills based on numbers.

This method may be especially useful when:

you are at the beginning of rolling out Scrum framework and everyone is learning new paradigm,

when still in an early phase of scrum rollout,

when you lead people acting as Product Owners, in a big software development organization, where dozens of them work and when your own observation is not enough.

Did you like Gunther's presentation “Re.Vers.Ify (Re.Imagining Your Organisation)” and want to know more? Here you have an exceptional opportunity to explore the topic even more and ask each question to our Keynote Speaker.

Q&A session.

Tobias Mayer, Educator, Writer, Agile Citizen

Did you like Tobias's presentation “#TrueScrumMaster” and want to know more? Here you have an exceptional opportunity to explore the topic even more and ask each question to our Keynote Speaker.

Talk: Agile In HR.

Joanna Duda, HR Specialist, Allegro

More and more companies choose and successfully apply agile management methods. Can HR be agile or is this only a thought experiment? What I’ve observed during my work as the project manager and HR specialist the biggest challenge is the right attitude and self-awareness. Hiring the best, performance management and sustaining motivated employees need the collaboration of both sites. Striving for agile culture we need a new mind-set in the way we work together as organization and by the same token treat HR and the business as one.

Let's have a closer look at how HR professionals can be inspired by being immersed in this environment and use this knowledge to create adaptability, innovation, collaboration, and speed and thereby align with the agile philosophy by building projects around motivated and self-organizing people.

Workshop: Introduction to Scrum.

Iza Woźniak, Scrum Master, Pearson IOKI

It is a workshop during which a group of attendees will be encouraged to apply Scrum to solve a real life problem from a user perspective. Taking into consideration the four scrum values, namely: commitment, focus, openness and courage they will be challenged to solve problem in a creative manner. The clue of the training is that every idea has a value. Every way that brings us closer to the solution may be the right one. If you are open to different points of views or you are willing to be the person who is, this is a workshop for you.

The workshop will be conducted in English. The number of participants is limited to 20 – first come first served rule applies

In this talk Riina is going to take us through some of the realism of organizational change and transformation and give us some perspectives on how to support organizational revolution, evolution and strategic change.

There are many holistically thinking people in the agile community, many people who dream about teal, holacracy or sociocracy. That’s a long way from the reality of an organization that locks the doors to the office supply room, because they need to control how many pens are spent. Riina deals with reality, dreams about self-organized organizations with super talented peers, and understands this is not the case in most organizations.

She has no correct answers, but plenty of opinions building on 15 years of organizational development.

EXECUTIVE: Five Requests to Executives in Agile Organizations.

Riina Hellstroem, Co-founder, People Geeks

It is time to start walking the new executive walk, and it is totally different than in the traditionally managed organizations that you have been raised to manage. The rules of the exec game have changed. From directions to direction. We are going from executive reports to the ivory tower, towards transparently seeing the organization’s successes, dysfunctions and ugly truths, and then to deal with them. Get ready to face the new expectations for executives in Agile organizations. In this talk Riina will slap you on your cheek to wake you up with practical and valuable requests, to help your organization on the way towards agile collaboration.

Talk: To be a Product Manager, What Does that Mean?

Petr Havel, Product Manager, MSD

Most of us end up in the PdM role by being thrown into it like into cold water and told to swim. Some of us drown, most learn to paddle, barely enough to keep their heads above water. But when do you know that you are really acting as a product manager? When do you really know that you are swimming as a PdM?

I've heard many definitions of what it means to be a product manager, almost as many as the different product owner's that I have met, from the person who documents the customer needs, main architect, customer representative, stakeholder liaison to CEO of the product. All in some sense capture parts of a job (even though that might not be the necessarily the PdM's job) that might be required on a product. But do not hit the mark for me on what it means to be a product manager

In my presentation I will look at some of these roles and go into what I think is the job of manager of a product and why maximising business value should always be on your mind.

Executive: Business Model Impact on Product Ownership.

Petr Havel, Product Manager, MSD

The business model of a company defines not only it's relations with customers and sales activities but also the way it's software product is designed and the ways of working inside of the company. As a PO I have worked in 4-5 different types of business models and would like to share my experience focusing on the three most common: Business to consumer, Business to Business, Business to Business to consumer. In each I saw different forms of interaction with stakeholders, clients and end users that had an impact on the roadmaps, ways of discovery and team dynamics that seem characteristic for each model.

Motorola Solutions creates products developed by hundreds of people. That’s a really tall ship on the Public Safety market sea. The inertia and the reaction time of such a big ship are long and far exceeding one sprint timeframe. Yet we want to transform the company into an agile organization. Improving agility in a growing company is hard - if you have worked in a successful startup that grew really fast, you know what I am talking about. But improving agility of the company that has already reached a large size and product maturity is even harder.I would like to share with you my observations of what I believe is the key scaling aspect in the attempts to change the course of a large organization in a fast and efficient way. If you find that interesting - or if you simply like sailing - my talk is for you!

TALK: Inspiring Co-creation. About SM/PO/HR Cooperation on People Processes.

Agata Landzwójczak, HR Business Partner, IT.integro

The era of robots replacing us on every walk of life, starting with work, is still luckily in front of us. So far, companies are based on humans, with all the consequences of relying on such unpredictable and self-dependent beings. In agile companies, both HR and Scrum Masters teams accompany employees by responding to their needs. On the other hand, they convey expectations of the company, which involves defining requirements on employee competencies and engagement.

Who is then responsible for bringing proper competencies to the team? Who should be involved in keeping team members motivated and support them in "tough times"? Who is to supposed to deal with the ultimate challenge of making company communication clear?I will try to provide answers to these questions based on my experience of combining the perspective of Scrum teams with the one of HR teams.

TALK: Scrum With No Limits - Teal Organisations.

Mateusz Gurgul, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, ABB

Have you ever come across organisational issues that haven't been within your Scrum Team’s sphere of influence? What are the limits of Scrum in traditional organisations with strong hierarchies, undisclosed finances or some legacy systems dependencies? Imagine unleashing the potential of Scrum in an environment with no managers and no processes overhead. Just self-organising teams focused on business value. It becomes true in the next level of organisations that is emerging.

Organizations, especially large enterprises, are built around people and processes. When an organization embraces Scrum, while People and Culture raise their degree of relevance assuming a cornerstone role, Processes need to be adjusted. The way organizations apply decision-making, the way they recognize people performance, and the concept itself of “accountability”, have to change deeply, to ensure that benefits of Scrum are reaped to a very large extent.

The opportunity to start the new IT R&D company might happen once in a lifetime. So we took our chance and started to build from the scratch. That was 2014. Our dream was to build a place when everyone achives extraordinary result with using best new technologies, having friends not managers around, make a lot of fun…. Not longer than after few months since we started, we’ve realized that we extremely need some guidelines to fulfil our dream. Then we started to use Evidence-Based Change framework, widely known as Agility Path. If you want to learn what the framework is and what offers, and by chance, to know the story of OT R&D using it, be welcome on the speech.

EXECUTIVE: From Project to Product. Multidimensional Transformation in IT.

Jarosław Wójciński, Head of IT Development, Lux Med

Multidirectional business development in LUX MED, diametric change of data scale and digitization of services have forced adaptation of new technologies and our software development methodology.

By working in a multi-tasking environment where changes were affecting multiple business areas and systems, it was necessary to move beyond broad change, completely rebuilding the IT model with the environment. As a result, we have adapted product based model, enriched with adaptive optimization solutions.

I never actually worked in Scrum – got to understand what Agile is at a stage when I could use it in large scale transformation projects as means to make them successful, make people happy to work on them, make me happy to see how they grow themselves into real Agile FREAKS.

Having gone through several years of maturing in Agile transformation at large scale (up to 40+ scrum teams working in parallel), I got into a position when working in agile development factory was a day-to-day job. Thus – change of environment put me into new place – building agile delivery teams for multi-location, multi-cultural, hectic project environment.

I will explain how to setup, help and nurture teams which are spread across the globe, timezones, cultures – and make them successful in Agile, efficient and motivated – based on real exaples, mistakes and small victories I have witnessed and been part of.

EXECUTIVE: Scrum Masters, What's Wrong with You!

Tomisław Krężelewski CTO at Azimo

The saying that change is the only constant is more true today than ever before. In this crazy and dynamic environment we use Scrum to deliver incremental value to our customers. We are the Agile Practitioners, Scrum Masters and Product Owners. We all work in Agile teams and Agile companies. Or, maybe, it’s not true. Because, you know, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

WORKSHOP: #TrueScrumMaster

Tobias Mayer, Educator, Writer, Agile Citizen

Workshop will explore more deeply a few of the ideas offered in the keynote talk. Exactly which ideas will depend on the requests of the people who attend. This workshop will be driven by your needs and your curiosity. Expect participatory dialog, physical interaction and quiet reflection. My hope is that after this short workshop you'll be inspired by at least one thing, and ready to take some true ScrumMaster action back in your place of work.

The workshop will be conducted in English. The number of participants is limited to 24 – first come first served rule applies.

Gunther Verheyen, one of our keynote speakers, has been employing Scrum since 2003. Gunther is amazed by the questions people bring to him. He wants to return the favour and give questions back to Scrum practitioners. In a session of 1,5 hours Gunther will interactively explore some aspects of mastery of Scrum with 15 people. There won’t be any PowerPoint. It won’t be a class. Maybe there will not even be answers. Just conversations and sharing.

The session will be conducted in English. Time: 14:10 - 17:10 The number of participants is limited to 15 – first come first served rule applies

TALK: Where Did My Money Go? A Different View on Revenue and Cost in Software Organizations.

Kate Terlecka

How efficient is your software organization? Did you ever wonder how value translates to money? Well, let's use your own approximated data and calculate how much of your organization is really working for the money you're earning. Or is your organization drowned in waste? Let's see!

TALK: Product first.

Paweł Feliński

Yet another successful project and a useless product that nobody likes?

You’re doing your job well, but the outcomes feel wrong?

Product Owner, your job is to optimise value of your product. How can you do that if you don’t know what you’re building or you building the wrong thing?

During my talk I will show you how important it is to define a product, do it consciously and align it with a business strategy.

Become a Sponsor

You have a great opportunity to take advantage of some sponsor packages available for Scrum Days 2017. These are designed to create a real impact for your brand and provide a fantastic return on your marketing investment! Scrum Days will be also an excellent opportunity to meet candidates and to build employer branding and learn how to use Scrum more efficiently.

Open spaces – FAQ

What is an Open Space?

Open space (a.k.a. Unconference) is a way to organize participant-driven workshops and conferences. Participants take control over creating, facilitating and attending (or not) sessions during the open space.

What is set?

Nothing really. Only rooms and time slots are prepared. Everything else is given by participants.

How do we start?

We will start with an introduction on what is open space and how to attend. There will be moderators helping to set up sessions and make sure all works smoothly.

Then we will set up the session board. Everyone will be able to post something to the board. Some subjects will surely be waiting as well – you can propose a subject even before the open space starts.

If I propose a session, do I have to conduct it?

NO – and that’s one of the most important rules. If you want to talk about something, you appear in a certain place and talk about it.

Do I have to speak in the session I’m attending?

NO – you can only listen if you prefer.

Do I have to stay for the whole session?

NO – the rule of two feet says: If you’re not learning nor contributing, leave. Even if you initiated this session.

What happens in the end

Executive track

CONDENSED, TIGHT-SCHEDULE-FRIENDLY AND TO THE POINT. DESIGNED ESPECIALLY TO FIT CXO LEVEL.

Scrum needs CxO support to happen and thrive. So we have something for you – topics for top management, spoken with your language. No Scrum Mastery, no Product Ownership. Managing organizations. Cultural change. Scaling. Topics for powerful people.

Presented by powerful practitioners in comfortable, quiet area. All tight-schedule friendly, condensed to half a day. If you have some more time, you can attend the whole event with your Exec Track pass.

Limited edition – register now!

We limit the conference to 300 people. First - to give everyone access to speakers and other participants.Also we want to create highest possible value - we concentrate on quality, not size.

till 21st of April

Regular registration

PLN 1599net

~410USD / ~375EUR

till 19th of May

Special offer

PLN 1699net

~435USD / ~400EUR

after 19th of May

Last minute

PLN 1999net

~510USD / ~470EUR

after 19th of May

Scrum Days+ Executive Track

PLN 2699net

~695USD / ~635EUR

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Group Booking Discounts:

3 Delegates – 10%4-5 Delegates – 15%6+ Delegates – 20%

PARTICIPANTS' FEEDBACK

One of the best agile conference in the world. We were recognized as one of the must-be Agile conferences. This is our empirical measurement, that we do the right thing. Scrum is empiricism. We are happy to receive such a feedback.

I'm here for the second time. Very satisfied, great job!

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Networking with great people in a great place.

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Very good organization, perfect timing, great ideas. Open space – I had the most valuable discussion there.

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Fantastic package for the participants. Great after party / Well-organized open space. The best performance of the presentation I have ever seen.

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A great conference and a special approach. Thank you for a stimulating experience.

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As a non-Scrum person I didn’t know what to expect. Eventually I’ve made many contacts, got skills helpful for my company and had a lot of fun.

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Much more interaction than at other conferences.

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Great idea! I love the engagement of both organizations and participants.

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As an English speaker I was happy that sessions were conducted in English and everyone seemed relaxed and very friendly.

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Event Venue

Sound Garden Hotel

Żwirki i Wigury, 18 Warsaw

Accommodation

The participants of ScrumDays Conference have been offered with preferential rates for the accommodation. Password to make a reservation at a special price: Scrum Days

Sound Garden Hotel is the first SMART hotel in Warsaw. We invite you to relax your body in our soothing bed, refresh under powerful rain-shower, boost your energy with the Sound Bar or Good Company Restaurant and check the fastest internet connection among hotels in the City. Convenient location between your office and the airport, quick self-check-in, and special Sound Garden Sound Selection will simply make your stay more enjoyable.

Who’s behind the conference?

Paweł Feliński

Magdalena Firlit

Paweł Kmiotek

Krzysztof Kosacki

Adam Michalczyk

Tomek Pawlak

Kate Terlecka

Tomek Włodarek

Katarzyna Ziemba

Aleksandra Zygarska

Become a Sponsor

You have a great opportunity to take advantage of some sponsor packages available for Scrum Days 2017. These are designed to create a real impact for your brand and provide a fantastic return on your marketing investment! Scrum Days will be also an excellent opportunity to meet candidates and to build employer branding and learn how to use Scrum more efficiently.